Animalia Life
Dicaeum geelvinkianum
TAXONOMY
Dicaeum geelvinkianum Meyer, 1874, Japan. Eleven subspecies.
OTHER COMMON NAMES
English: Red-crowned flowerpecker; French: Dicйe de
Geelvink; German: Papuamistelfresser; Spanish: Pica Flor de
Gorra Roja.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
2.4 in (6 cm). Brownish with scarlet crown, nape, and breast;
white throat patch and vents.
DISTRIBUTION
New Guinea, Geelvink Bay Islands, and the D’Entrecasteaux
Archipelago.
HABITAT
Forests, forest edges, thick savanna, gardens, and plantations.
Recorded as high as 7,700 ft (2,350 m).
BEHAVIOR
Restless. Frequents treetops.
FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIET
Fruits, sometimes eaten whole, and spiders.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY
Two or three white eggs are laid November–December, in
pear-shaped nests made of strips of ferns and animal hair suspended
from low tree.
CONSERVATION STATUS
Common, not threatened.
SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS
None known.
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